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Nigeria: Kwankwaso - Tinubu Developing Southern Nigeria At Expense of North
NIGERIA, JUL 24 – Rabiu Kwankwaso says the APC government focuses infrastructure spending in Southern Nigeria while most northern roads remain in poor condition, urging equitable resource distribution.
- On July 24, 2025, Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso voiced concerns in Kano that President Bola Tinubu’s government is prioritizing development projects in Southern Nigeria while neglecting the Northern region.
- Kwankwaso accused the ruling APC of lopsided allocation of scarce national resources between the northern and southern regions, urging a change to ensure equitable distribution.
- He pointed out that numerous highways in the northern region are still in poor condition, using the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano route—begun during the APC administration—as an example of neglected infrastructure.
- Kwankwaso claimed that a large portion of the national budget is currently being directed disproportionately toward one part of the country, emphasizing that insecurity and poverty arise from poor resource management and insufficient funding.
- The statement implies growing regional disparities may deepen unless the government demonstrates commitment to developing all parts of Nigeria fairly.
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Kwankwaso: Tinubu developing Southern Nigeria at expense of...
The 2023 presidential candidate of the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP), Rabiu Kwankwaso, has criticised President Bola Tinubu’s administration. Speaking on Thursday at the Kano State Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the 2025 Constitutional Amendment, Kwankwaso said the national resources have been concentrated on the development of the southern part of the country, while the north is being neglected. “Let me advise the Federal Government on the distr…
Kwankwaso says Tinubu neglects north, developing south
Senator Rabiu Kwankwaso, the leader of the Kwankwasiyya Movement, has alleged that the President Bola Tinubu administration is neglecting Northern Nigeria while concentrating the nation's resources on developing the southern part where the president hails from. He made the claim while speaking at the Kano State Stakeholders’ Dialogue on the 2025 Constitutional Amendment in the North-West state on Thursday, July 24, 2025. He said information avai…
North vs South infrastructure debate: Fact-checking Kwankwaso’s claims against President Tinubu, By Femi Ogunshola - Thepodiummedia
Whenever a President occupies the seat of power, it becomes politically convenient and almost strategic for some politicians to revive the age-old North-South divide. They eagerly toss around figures related to infrastructure, appointments, and employment, not for clarity or accountability, but to stir resentment and pit one region against the other. With the 2027 general elections on the horizon, Nigeria’s political stage is once again echoing …
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